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Re: Tor browser on backtrack5

If you guys are using the torbrowser bundle for linux then I can answer this for you. It seems that when I downloaded and unzipped the bundle for some reason mine said the owner of the files and folders was user 2011 and group was 2011 instead of root and group root which is who you are running as. So if you run a chown command with recursive on the unzipped directory this will change ownership and allow the package to work without errors.

If your terminal is in the folder you downloaded the bundle to then this would be the command

chown -R root:root ./tor-browser_en-US

If you downloaded a different language then your folder name may be different.

Re: Tor browser on backtrack5

Hi guys,

I am still having this same problem. I've tried in multiple clean installs, and even switched from the iso to the vmware image just to make sure, but the behavior is always the same...Line 93 vidalia can't execute binary, exiting cleanly, goodbye. I've tried changing the permissions as the guy above recommended, but it had no effect.

Any ideas at all?

Tor is a pretty basic thing to get up and running on every other OS I've tried, and will be mandatory for doing much recon.

Re: Tor browser on backtrack5

Originally Posted by poidog

Hi guys,

I am still having this same problem. I've tried in multiple clean installs, and even switched from the iso to the vmware image just to make sure, but the behavior is always the same...Line 93 vidalia can't execute binary, exiting cleanly, goodbye. I've tried changing the permissions as the guy above recommended, but it had no effect.

Any ideas at all?

Tor is a pretty basic thing to get up and running on every other OS I've tried, and will be mandatory for doing much recon.

Thanks

Why not just set your browser to point to Tor instead of getting tor-browser working? There's a few more clicks involved, when you need to turn it on/off, but it does the job.

Re: Tor browser on backtrack5

Re: Tor browser on backtrack5

So I have begun using BT5 quite recently, tbh I find it interesting like no other operating system I've tried using before but still know very little about it or linux in general.

You can't beat the ubuntu software center for installing stuff thou if your having problems. If you find your having difficulty installing TOR I would recommend installing by first downloanding and installing the software center with the command

apt-get install sofware-center

then just search running the software center and looking for Tork and run it from the internet application option. If your using Tor thou I would recommend reading

before you begin even considering surfing the web casually using tor thou dude. I'd also consider reading these pages a well, if your looking to browse without leaving any trace just using tor doesn't cut it thou from what i hear if you are really serious. Also its not recommended for use with torrents so I wouldn't use it with transmission (I don't really get why but the reasons not to seem complex enough for me not to think differently without reading up some more).